Australian Police Ask Facebook For Police Alarm Button

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 6, 2010 @10:07AM from the assisted-living-facility dept.

littlekorea writes "The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has requested social networking site Facebook install a law enforcement representative in Australia and introduce some sort of button in which users can immediately report online crime to the police in a single click. It is National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia, so the AFP is on an all-out offensive — announcing it is also investigating whether Google committed offences under Australia's Telecommunications Interception Act when it harvested Wi-Fi data." Something like this has been in the works for a while.

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Re:Because this totally by mrsteveman1 · 2010-06-06 10:35 · Score: 3, Interesting

Indeed, now whenever people say things like "well, that's just criminal!", i'll feel obligated to press the button.
Actually I feel obligated to press it anyway, because it's stupid, but i'll be looking for excuses.